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BarTender utilizes individual dialogs and menu options to control every aspect of creating, designing, and printing your items. You can reference the extensive help system at any time by pressing the F1 key on your keyboard or clicking the Help button from within the corresponding dialog.

Using the BarTender Help System

The help system is divided into several sections:

• Getting Started with BarTender

  This section provides information about BarTender installation. It also includes Getting Started Guides for users and print operators, and another for administrators.

• Activating BarTender

  This section describes how activation works, and how to activate your software. It also contains a Getting Started Guide and user information about Seagull License Server (SLS).

• Using the BarTender Interface

  This section describes the components of BarTender's user interface, including main menus, toolbars, toolbox, and keyboard shortcuts.

• Creating and Modifying Documents

  This section describes how to open and save BarTender documents, create multiple templates, and modify page setup options.

• Creating and Modifying Template Objects

  This section describes how to add a variety of objects to a template; additionally, this section describes how to modify the appearance of objects on a template.

• Working with Data Sources

  This section describes how to populate the data for an object on the template.

• Using Data Entry at Print-Time

  This section describes how to enter data into an object at print-time.

• Reading Data From Databases

  This section describes how to configure BarTender to import data into objects on your template from various kinds of databases, including ODBC (Open Data Base Connectivity), OLE DB, SAP IDocs, and text files.

• Printing

  This section describes how to specify a printer, set available printing options, and print items from BarTender.

• Visual Basic Scripting

  This section describes how to create scripts that execute at print-time in BarTender's internal scripting engine.

• Automating BarTender

  This section describes the ways in which BarTender can be automated.

• Companion Applications

  This section contains the help system of each of BarTender's companion applications. The availability of these help systems and applications depends on the activated edition of BarTender as well as the installation of the associated companion applications.